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Lawmakers Consider Measures to Ensure Only US Citizens Vote in Texas Elections
Proposed proof-of-citizenship requirements align with provisions of the federal SAVE Act, which awaits Senate approval.
Jilted Lottery Ticket Reseller Sues the Texas Lottery Over Ban
Claims leveled in the suit burn former directors Gary Grief and Ryan Mindell, validating watchdog claims.
Burrows Blocks Effort Limiting Scholarship Program to US Citizens
The Texas House Speaker killed a series of conservative amendments to a proposed scholarship program.
Texas Lawmakers Consider Advantaging Entities Seeking to Silence Citizens
A proposal heard by Texas representatives this week would cut into First Amendment protections against frivolous defamation lawsuits.
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Texas GOP Affirms Support for Second Amendment
At the State Republican Executive Committee held in Austin this past weekend, the governing body of the Republican Party of Texas unanimously passed a resolution affirming the party’s support for the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. The resolution notably...
Should State Lawmakers Start Making Local Housing and Land Use Policy?
As big-city affordability crises continue to sweep the nation, the voices insisting that it is time for state governments to intervene grow in numbers, and louder by the day. In calling for last summer’s special session of the Texas Legislature, Gov. Greg Abbott...
Texas Democrats: Criticize Trump, Go to Jail
Texas Democrats—traditionally big proponents of onerous campaign finance regulations—may be rethinking their position in light of recent Federal Election Commission rulings that could see them jailed for criticizing President Trump or other federal candidates. Eric...
Swamp Spending
Congressional Republicans and Democrats actively colluded last week to spend even more of your money in Washington, D.C. in the omnibus funding bill. The swamp has declared war on taxpayers. It is sickening to think that the Democrats got more spending out of a...
Straus Questions Corporate Handouts He Approved
Last week, outgoing House Speaker Joe Straus reportedly sent a letter to Gov. Greg Abbott to express “concern” over the use of one of the state’s prominent corporate handouts known as the Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF). Created in 2003, the TEF exists “to help attract...
Cook’s Kangaroo Committee Contradicts Conservative Voters
Today, the House Committee on Economic Competitiveness released an interim report deriding legislative efforts to keep men out of women’s bathrooms and locker rooms. The committee, chaired by departing State Rep. Byron Cook (R–Corsicana), was formed by retiring House...
Abbott Treasurer Endorses Liberal Democrat
When Gov. Greg Abbott took the extraordinary step of endorsing conservative challengers to establishment lawmakers, John Nau III, Abbott’s campaign treasurer, undermined those efforts by sending campaign contributions to the liberal Republican lawmakers Abbott had...
Republican Voters Choose Limited Government in Landslide
Across the Lone Star State, Republican voters re-nominated the party’s leading conservatives as their candidates to face off across from Democrats on the November ballot and also let them know which issues they wanted them to focus on after they are re-elected. On...
Abbott Endorses Thomas McNutt
Gov. Greg Abbott is continuing his efforts to elect conservative candidates in this year’s Texas Republican primary by announcing an endorsement of businessman Thomas McNutt as he runs for the open seat vacated by State Rep. Byron Cook (R–Corsicana). "Thomas McNutt is...